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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






2. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






3. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






4. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






5. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts






6. Schedule activity that follows a predecessor activity as determined by their logical relationship






7. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






8. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






9. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






10. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






11. Describes how the project management team will implement the performing organizations quality plan.






12. Provider of products - services or results






13. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






14. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (sq. foot in construction - lines of code in software development) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters such as scope - cost - budget






15. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






16. Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






17. The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete






18. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






19. Logical relationship where initiation of work of the successor activity depends on the completion of work of the predecessor activity






20. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






21. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






22. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






23. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






24. Document used to record and describe or denote selected items identified during execution of a process or activity






25. Logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity






26. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






27. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals






28. Cost - time - quality - technical or resource value used as a parameter and which may be included in product specification. crossing the threshold should trigger some action.






29. Shortening the project schedule duration without reducing the project scope






30. Deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






31. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






32. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






33. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






34. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result of service conforms to specified requirements.






35. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






36. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






37. ACWP






38. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






39. Float (total float - free float)






40. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






41. Collection of logically related project activities - usually culminating in the completion of a major deliverable. project phase is a component of the project life cycle






42. Point in time associated with a schedule activities' start.






43. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






44. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






45. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






46. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.






47. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






48. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






49. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed. Calculated based on performance to date or estimated by the project team based on other factors






50. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence